16 Food Resolutions You Can Actually Keep This Year

Get your head out of the "I'm going to cook every day and be the healthiest human alive!!!" mindset. Let's ease into 2019 with some more reasonable goals, people. Seriously, if we make realistic resolutions—especially around food and our health—it feels so much better when we actually fulfill them. So! You ready to make some stupid-easy changes this year, or what?

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Clean your fridge out.

Did you know that there is a 90 percent chance you have tomato paste that expired in 2015 in the back right corner of your refrigerator? Throw that shit O-U-T.

Love, Someone who found three-year-old capers in her vegetable drawer over the holiday break.

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...And your pantry.

I know we buy these things expecting them to last forever—and, truly, some of them do—but with all the recalls going on these days, it's worth taking a look at some of those baking and cooking staples, like, yesterday to see what's past its prime and ready to be refreshed.

Do some research on what knife makes most sense for you—are you most often chopping vegetables? Slicing fish? Meat? Regardless, a good knife will make your life so much more seamless. My personal fav is this gorgeous santoku knife, but to each her own.

Realistically, you're already eating vegetables (right? RIGHT?), but if you're looking for more of a challenge, look through your shopping cart ahead of checking out at the grocery store and swap one junk food-y thing for a veg. That's it! Just one!

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Have one less drink per week.

Listen, I'm not saying you need to cut out alcohol altogether (unless you want to! Then great!), but coming off the holidays, we've all been drinking a lot more than is likely healthy. Swap that huge Tuesday pour out for a big glass of, IDK, water. You'll have a wonderful little Wednesday!

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Hydrate

Again, I'm not saying you need to go all in on 327947921 glasses of water a day. But making it a point to drink at least a few more glasses a day is going to change the quality of your life almost immediately, soooooo.

Whether you're scared of messing up gnocchi or risotto or your mom's famous soup, it's still worth trying! Who knows? If you take a slow Sunday afternoon and actually try it, it may turn out you're better at tomato rice than your own mother.

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Try meal-prepping.

All it really takes is doubling a recipe and a few pieces of Tupperware and you're set for lunch for an entire week. How good does that feel?

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Take someone you love out for a fancy-as-hell meal.

You already bought yourself a badass knife. Now it's time to treat someone else. But, like, you're also treating yourself in the process. You both deserve a ridiculously good meal for no occasion other than that it was a long week!

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Make something with what you've got instead of ordering in.

Call it Chopped: Leftovers Edition. For real, though, you absolutely have pasta and cheese (or, if not, eggs and cheese) in your apartment at any point in time. Save the money for once—you'll be proud you did.

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Bake something for your coworkers.

Really, the looks on their faces when you greet them on Monday morning with a tray of chocolate-filled something will be worth more than the aggravation they cause you later that day.

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